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Lorraine Daston, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, speaks on “Seeing Things: A History of Blank Screens” yesterday. Daston dwelled on the elusive tabula rasa.
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Lorraine Daston, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, speaks on “Seeing Things: A History of Blank Screens” yesterday. Daston dwelled on the elusive tabula rasa.

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